Governor Cuomo is worried about immigrant children staying at New York State certified foster care facilities. These are the same facilities that the
state sends its own kids who do not have parents to care for them; but apparently they aren't good enough for these immigrant children and Cuomo
feels the need to protect them from his own facilities.

Its disheartening to find out that we aren't even protecting our own foster kids and that we now have to worry about the system we send them to. It
was bad enough when it was just the immigrant children at the boarder.

One night, exhausted, Ms. Joefield put Deja to bed, and plopped into a bath with her headphones on.

By the time I come out, I’m looking, I don’t see my child,” said Ms. Joefield, who began frantically searching the building. Deja, who was 5,
had indeed headed for the grandmother’s house when she couldn’t find her mother, but the next thing Ms. Joefield knew, it was a police matter.

“I’m thinking, I’ll explain to them what happened, and I’ll get my child,” Ms. Joefield said.

For most parents, this scenario might be a panic-inducing, but hardly insurmountable, hiccup in the long trial of raising a child. Yet for Ms.
Joefield and women in her circumstances — living in poor neighborhoods, with few child care options — the consequences can be severe. Police
officers removed Deja from her apartment and the Administration for Children’s Servicesplaced her in foster care. Police charged Ms. Joefield with
endangering the welfare of a child.

Forget about the morally gray area of crossing into a country illegally. Apparently New York separates children from parents who take baths ... while
pore.

In interviews, dozens of lawyers working on these cases say the removals punish parents who have few resources. Their clients are predominantly
poor black and Hispanic women, they say, and the criminalization of their parenting choices has led some to nickname the practice: Jane Crow.

“It takes a lot as a public defender to be shocked, but these are the kinds of cases you hear attorneys screaming about in the hall,” said Scott
Hechinger, a lawyer at Brooklyn Defender Services.

What is wrong with our leaders like Trump and Cuomo to make them think its ok to treat children like this?

Hopefully the current spotlight will make Cuomo think twice about the systems in his state that treat these children and families so poorly.

you have no idea how the court system works like every other lefty on the planet

it's a law that has to be struck down by the courts there's precedence yadda yadda

also, it's not our responsibility to raise the rest of the worlds kids because they decided they couldn't handle it so they sent their UNACCOMPANIED
minor's for us to handle

ship them back

I think you might be arguing with someone else. I didn't comment on our responsibility to raise the rest of the worlds kids. My OP was about how New
York is raising its foster kids and how Cuomo is worried about his foster care facilities.

originally posted by: rickymouse
That would be discrimination. If the facility is good enough for citizen children, it is good enough for immigrant children. Why should the
immigrants have special rights more than citizens get?

I think what has happened is that Cuomo inadvertently made clear that the New York foster care system isn't good enough for anyone, citizens or
immigrants.

Because he couldn't let a good photo op go to waist he implicated his own system. He cut off his nose to spite Trumps face.

I am going to go out on a limb and say some of these kids parents are here and sent for their children once they saved up enough money. I also believe
that the kids were not "unaccompanied" but treked through with coyotes and will meet at a designated meeting point if they can make it to other side
of the border. Imo they believe they have a better chance of sneaking in then rolling the dice and asking for assylum the legal way. Word must have
gotten out to cross now because it's only going to get harder under Trump.

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